Oscar Wilde Quotes
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We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
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The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived.
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A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.
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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
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No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.
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Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.
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One should always be a little improbable.
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It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
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Realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.
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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
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In the wild struggle for existance, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.
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Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman - or the want of it in the man.
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Some people always know the price, but not the value.
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I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.
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There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.
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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
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Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!
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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
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By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.
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Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.